api-design-principles

api-design-principles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FluxonLab/Skillry. It costs 44 tokens per session (3,236 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to designing REST and GraphQL APIs, which let software exchange data and operations over a network. It covers principles for making API interfaces understandable, maintainable, and able to grow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing new REST or GraphQL APIs, reviewing API specifications, or setting API design standards.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing or inconsistent API designs that are difficult for clients to use and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when designing new REST or GraphQL APIs, reviewing API specifications, or setting API design standards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fluxonlab/skillry/api-design-principles
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add FluxonLab/Skillry --skill api-design-principles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FluxonLab/Skillry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,236 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.03236
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01294
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00647
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00324

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fc6475e90758, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-design-principles scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

community/wshobson-agents/skills/api-design-principles/SKILL.md · 521 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 521 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A fc6475e90758

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api-design-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository FluxonLab/Skillry (6 stars, last pushed 24d ago), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,236 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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